Not exact matches
Earlier this
year,
ASUS launched its first
tablet device, the
ASUS EeePad Transformer.
One
year down the line there is news of
ASUS coming out with another 7 inch
tablet which would be running on Android.
ASUS choose the CES event early in the
year to let the world have a glimpse of what their new flagship
tablet device will be like while making the device official at the ongoing MWC event in Barcelona.
First shown at the CES held earlier in the
year, but
ASUS has not been making much noise with the
tablet until now.
The company also said that it's long - awaited Kaby Lake chips built on the company's new 14nm manufacturing process will arrive later this
year, and that
ASUS's Transformer 3 and Transformer 3 Pro
tablets will be among the first devices to use it.
Starting with its Nexus 7 back in 2012 and the follow - up a
year later,
ASUS created an ultraportable
tablet that avoided the pitfalls that typically plague the category.
Unless you can wait for the wave of quad - core devices sure to be headed to stores later this
year, do not go into a store looking for a
tablet without keeping the
ASUS Transformer Prime on the front of your list.
There's no question the
ASUS Transformer is my favorite
tablet of the
year.
Unveiled in August last
year, the
ASUS ZenPad 3S 10 (Z500M) is still an excelent 9.7 inch
tablet, with great specs, that just received Android 7.0 Nougat.
Of course,
ASUS is looking to turn the Android
tablet world on its head when they introduce their $ 250 quad - core, Nvidia Tegra 3, MeMO 370T 7 - inch
tablet going head - to - head with the Kindle Fire later this
year.
With
ASUS launching the first quad - core Android
tablet this
year and HTC's plan to focus on quad - core devices next
year, we guess we can't say that we're too surprised to learn that both Acer and Lenovo are looking to get on board the quad - core bandwagon too.
Earlier this
year at CES 2014,
ASUS took the wraps off a very interesting hybrid device, and by hybrid we're not talking about a laptop that doubles as a
tablet.
ASUS almost stole the show last
year with its four Eee Pad
tablets.
Two may not have much to show, as news this week suggests both
ASUS and Acer are backing out of the
tablet game next
year, and Dell is doing to the same with netbooks after it publicly claimed intentions to exit the Android
tablet market.
It shipped one million Xooms all
year and didn't fare as well as
ASUS, Samsung, or other
tablet designers, even when excluding the iPad.
ASUS has garnered a lot of fame over the last few
years for its
tablet offerings.
Compared to most Android based
tablet manufacturers,
ASUS entered the
tablet market surprisingly successful with their
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer which was released earlier this
year.
Welcome to the next generation of Android
tablets — where the
year 2011 has been dominated utterly by the dual - core processor by the name of Tegra 2, so too does NVIDIA hold the next keys to the kingdom with the quad - core processor Tegra 3, and this is the city which you'll love to explore: the
ASUS Transformer Prime.
Hybrid
Tablets or Notebooks aren't exactly new, last
year ASUS launched the unmemorable Slider and they weren't alone, Samsung also released a convertible
tablet.
ASUS»
tablet lineup at CES at the beginning of the
year were all demoed with Android 2.2, just like almost every other
tablet at the event, but they did promise Honeycomb later in the
year.
ASUS already by the NVIDIA press conference at CES in January of this
year, as CEO of
ASUS introduced a sub $ 250 quad - core
tablet.
The small holes on the back always remind me of leather racing gloves from the 60s, even then the great Nexus (and the lesser of
ASUS at the bottom) lettering stands out nicely and pops me out of my dream bubble and reminds me that I am here with a
tablet in my hands that I was waiting for since beginning of the
year.
In related news,
ASUS has confirmed several other
tablets in its lineup that will get Android 4.1 in the second quarter of this
year.
ASUS also recently unveiled its second convertible
tablet, the Padfone, which is expected to launch later this
year, combining a 10.1 - inch
tablet with a standalone 4.3 - inch Android smartphone.
Google and
ASUS» Nexus 7 has been one of the budget
tablet success stories of the
year, and today it's an even more tempting buy for customers in the UK.
This
year's 7 - inch
tablet is once again made by Taiwanese manufacturer
ASUS, and boasts a higher - resolution screen, faster CPU.
As it does every
year,
ASUS began the show with a number of great Windows products, including the new ultra-slim ZenBook 3 laptop, and the super powerful Transformer 3 and Transformer 3 Pro
tablets.
Starting with its Nexus 7 back in 2012 and the follow - up a
year later,
ASUS created an ultraportable
tablet that avoided the pitfalls that typically plague the category.
A
year after the launch of the unmitigated disaster known as the Motorola Xoom, Google took a swing at its first Nexus
tablet, the Nexus 7, through a partnership with
ASUS.
Background
ASUS have been making Android
tablets for a number of
years, including the successful range of Transformer
tablets, both Nexus 7 devices and more recently, a range of new ZenPad devices.
Google and
ASUS disrupted the
tablet realm last
year at Google I / O.
The
ASUS Google Nexus 7 2013 may be last
year's model Nexus
tablet, but it's still very much the daily driver
tablet for many people.
The
ASUS Google Nexus 7 2013 is my favorite
tablet of the
year.
ASUS was one of the first manufacturers to get serious about Android on
tablets, and in recent
years it's expanded into the world of smartphones, «phablet» - class devices and even wearables.
This ties with the popular rumor of Google working with
ASUS to launch a high - end Nexus
tablet that could sell anywhere between $ 199 - $ 299 sometime later this
year.